My Writer Aesthetic
My style of writer academia:
Rainy days, natural sunlight, libraries, old books, cozy sweaters, antique desks covered in beautiful leather, inspirational quotes, dark chocolate mochas, and pretty notebooks.
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My Writer Aesthetic
My style of writer academia:
Rainy days, natural sunlight, libraries, old books, cozy sweaters, antique desks covered in beautiful leather, inspirational quotes, dark chocolate mochas, and pretty notebooks.
Wild garlic, bones, and mushrooms in my wood.
Forest of Dean, England. March 2022
goblincore + dark academia
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The best advice really is to just write. Write badly - purple prose, stilted conversations, rambling descriptions. Donât delete it, pass go, take your $200, save all your garbage in a big folder. Look at how much youâve made - it doesnât matter if it isnât perfect, isnât polished, it was practice. Every time you write you learn a little more, and find another piece of your voice.
âIf youâre only going to write when youâre inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you will never be a novelist â because youâre going to have to make your word count today, and those words arenât going to wait for you, whether youâre inspired or not. So you have to write when youâre not âinspired.â ⊠And the weird thing is that six months later, or a year later, youâre going to look back and youâre not going to remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired and which scenes you wrote because they had to be written.â
- Neil Gaiman
this made me realize i was literally just using inspiration as an excuse to procrastinate
me sitting here today thinking how much i donât want to finish off the kidfic sequel bc wehhhhhhhh getting slapped in the face with this post
âWRITE IT BADLY. Write it badly, write it badly, write it badly, write it badly. Stop what youâre doing, open a Word document, put a pencil on some paper, just get the idea out of your head. Let it be good later. Write it down now. Otherwise it will die in there.â
â Brandon Sanderson on overcoming writerâs block to create a first draft as a professional author (quoted in this tumblr post here)
âWriting tip of the day: it is perfectly acceptable, when working on a scene that vexes you, to write âDUMBEST VERSIONâ along the top of the page and start from there. Â As I, a human who has been writing professionally for 25 years, just did. Give yourself permission to suck.â
â John Rogers (on his twitter here)
The problem with reading a good book is then I want to write one.
âI am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.â
â Carl Gustav Jung
I read a productivity blog a years ago that effectively said âfind a system, use it for life.â Iâve never found a one size fits all productivity system to begin with, and my life has changed on so many levels since then anyway. Even just in the last 6 years Iâve moved abroad, had a child, changed industries, went from freelancer to FT employee. And even within the FT role, the responsibilities have changed over time, too.
But I do like Cal Newportâs Deep Work, and recently I started doing the focus âscorecardâ again. When I started this card, got a sticker for each hour of âdeep workâ done. But I found that getting a full hour was proving difficult around the meetings and other distractions of my role and then I felt unproductive. So I decided that now I get a sticker for each half an hour. If I get so fractured that focus for 5 minutes in an achievement? Iâll change it again.
I think itâs good to have a system. I also think itâs good to be able to adapt it, because for most of us, things change. So this is a reminder for me: itâs okay to change the system.
(If youâre squinting at the header, itâs because I write in a funny shorthand when itâs just for me.)
So I guess my aesthetic is wandering around the house with a pile of notebooks, devices, a pencil bag, and tea.